Year-End Lists

Uproxx Music Critics Poll: Best Albums of 2020, a survey of more than 230 critics

[see also 2021 • 2019 • 2018]

1. Fetch the Bolt Cutters
   Fiona Apple
2. Punisher
   Phoebe Bridgers
3. Folklore
   Taylor Swift
4. Saint Cloud
   Waxahatchee
5. RTJ4
   Run the Jewels
6. Women in Music Pt. III
   Haim
7. Future Nostalgia
   Dua Lipa
8. Alfredo
   Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
9. Rough and Rowdy Ways
   Bob Dylan
10. After Hours
    The Weeknd
11. Heaven to a Tortured Mind
    Yves Tumor
12. Shore
    Fleet Foxes
13. Live Forever
    Bartees Strange
14. Sawayama
    Rina Sawayama
15. What's Your Pleasure?
    Jessie Ware
16. Eternal Atake
    Lil Uzi Vert
17. Ungodly Hour
    Chloe x Halle
18. The Slow Rush
    Tame Impala
19. Notes on a Conditional Form
    The 1975
20. My Turn
    Lil Baby
21. Untitled (Black Is)
    Sault
22. Melee
    Dogleg
23. YHLQMDLG
    Bad Bunny
24. Chromatica
    Lady Gaga
25. color theory
    Soccer Mommy
26. Set My Heart on Fire Immediately
    Perfume Genius
27. Untitled (Rise)
    Sault
28. Reunions
    Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit
29. No Dream
    Jeff Rosenstock
30. Song for Our Daughter
    Laura Marling
31. Bonny Light Horseman
    Bonny Light Horseman
32. Good News
    Megan Thee Stallion
33. Circles
    Mac Miller
34. Petals for Armor
    Hayley Williams
35. Inlet
    Hum
36. Ohms
    Deftones
37. It Is What It Is
    Thundercat
38. Mordechai
    Khruangbin
39. The Ascension
    Sufjan Stevens
40. Flower of Devotion
    Dehd
41. songs
    Adrianne Lenker
42. Shoot for the Stars, Aim for the Moon
    Pop Smoke
43. The New Abnormal
    The Strokes
44. how I'm feeling now
    Charli XCX
45. Græ
    Moses Sumney
46. Miss Anthropocene
    Grimes
47. Heavy Light
    U.S. Girls
48. Savage Mode II
    21 Savage & Metro Boomin
49. Pray for Paris
    Westside Gunn
50. A Written Testimony
    Jay Electronica